Aristotle Quotes
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.Aristotle
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman -
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde -
It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
Samuel Goldwyn -
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde -
I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
Ada Lovelace
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson -
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
Harry Browne -
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
Vernor Vinge -
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Rainn Wilson -
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot -
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Madame de Stael -
So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.
Ogden Nash -
Mobs have passions, not brains.
Dan Simmons -
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
Lorna Luft -
I'm a real bath addict. I could sit in a bath and soak for days on end, and you'll never see me again. It's my easiest, nicest thing. So if you're giving me something extra to do, an extra step to make bathtime last longer, then I'll do it.
Poppy Delevingne -
I am very Latino in everything I am and I do, but there's a part of me that's also something else. I'm reflective of the way this country's gonna be in the next 40 years. More multicultural is what we'll see.
Jimmy Smits
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
Erica Jong -
Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?
Carl Andre -
The history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.
Edward Victor Appleton -
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.
C. S. Lewis -
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
Adrian Forty -
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
Aristotle